Does the patient fail the surgery, or the surgery fail the patient? (re-post from another board)

Bands so fail people and People can fail their Band.  I saw it often in my support group. We would meet for a dinner and I watched those who complained constantly how they weren't losing weight - ate.  I saw them with their poor choices.  My Band worked for as long as it could and then it had to be removed.  I was extremely fortunate to have lost all of my weight with the Band.

I do think you owe Kate an apology.  she didn't say anything that you accused her of saying.  She's always been a very very supportive and kind person!  Please read carefully before going off half-****ed and blaming someone for something that they never said.

Well put Kate! I think far more needs to be done with counseling before most people have any weight loss surgery. I knew ahead of time that exercise was not going to be happening for me with my lungs and was assured that I would still lose because I would only be able to eat half as much food. So I knew it would take longer but it still didn't help. My point is I guess that both happen and it can depend on the right surgery choice. I now know I never should have gotten a band but that was my only choice at the time so I got what I could. I should have just stayed fat and somewhat healthy or gotten a permanent type surgery.

This was posted on the home page here at OH before also.  A good article.

I haven't been around as much lately, so I miss stuff like that. Plus I never go to the main page!

How's it going with the sleeve, Dev? Weight loss looks good!

Her numbers are almost identical to mine!  So is her time frame.  She just had her band a couple years longer.